The automated garage will offer thirty-nine spaces within a mixed-use facility. On October 21, 2015 the City Planning Commission approved a special permit for WC 28 Realty, LLC to construct an automated parking facility at 530 West 28th Street in the West Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. A public hearing was held on the application on September 22, 2015. (See previous CityLand coverage here.)

In its final report, the Commission found the proposal was not likely to create or contribute to serious traffic congestion in the neighborhood, pointing to the facility’s ability to park an incoming vehicle within ninety seconds on average and proximity to the West Side Highway drawing drivers away from local streets. The Commission also relied on the applicant’s parking study documenting an anticipated growth in need for parking spaces with the increase in area residential development between 2004 and 2016. The study found the facility would increase the ratio of change in off-street parking to the change in residential units from four to five percent, far from exceeding City Planning’s anticipated growth ratio of twenty percent for the same time period.

The proposal will receive a hearing with the City Council Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises later this month.

CPC: 530 West 28th Street (150309-ZSM) (Oct. 21, 2015).

By: Michael Twomey (Michael is a CityLaw Fellow and a New York Law School graduate, Class of 2014)